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3D Illustration

Laigter – generate lighting maps for 2D game artwork

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Laigter generates normal, parallax, specular and occlusion maps from 2D artwork, with real-time lighting previews, presets and batchable CLI use.

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3d render

Gaffer – node-based VFX look development and production application

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Gaffer is a node-based VFX application for look development, lighting, scene assembly, rendering, compositing and production automation.

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PIM-Software

LXQt Organizer – lightweight personal information manager

August 29, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LXQt Organizer is a lightweight personal information manager developed with Qt.

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Supercell Wx – advanced desktop weather radar viewer

August 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Supercell Wx is an advanced desktop weather radar viewer designed for monitoring current and historical weather events.

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Audio Analyzers

EKO – graphical sound editor

August 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

EKO is a Qt 6 graphical sound editor with waveform editing, recording, effects, session support, and broad audio format compatibility.

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Images of shells by the sea

cjsh – POSIX-oriented shell

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

cjsh is a POSIX-oriented shell that combines a standards-focused scripting engine with a modern interactive environment.

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Economics

Dynare – software platform for handling economic models

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Financial

Dynare handles DSGE, OLG and heterogeneous-agent economic models with simulation, estimation, forecasting and optimal-policy tools.

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Hypervisors

Multipass – lightweight virtual machine manager

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Multipass is a lightweight virtual machine manager for Linux, Windows and macOS.

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Planet Earth

osgEarth – C++ geospatial SDK

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

osgEarth is a C++ geospatial SDK for adding accurate 3D maps and terrain to applications. It builds on OpenSceneGraph and GDAL

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Data Science

Cantor – graphical front-end for mathematical, statistical and scientific computing software

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Cantor provides an interface for a collection of external programming languages, computer algebra systems and numerical computing packages.

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hyprmag – screen magnifier

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

hyprmag is a screen magnifier for wlroots-compatible Wayland compositors. It displays a magnifying lens that follows the mouse pointer.

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File Managers

NWM – tiling window manager

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

NWM combines traditional master-stack tiling with a horizontal scrolling layout and is configured by editing and recompiling its source.

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Bioinformatics

Foldseek – compare large protein structure datasets

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Foldseek is a fast and sensitive command-line tool for comparing large protein structure datasets.

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galaxy

Orfeo ToolBox – remote sensing image processing library

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

OTB is a collection of remote-sensing image processing algorithms for very large optical, multispectral, hyperspectral and radar images.

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TTFviewer – utility for viewing and inspecting TrueType fonts

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

TTFviewer is a graphical utility for viewing and inspecting TrueType fonts.

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Remote Display

KasmVNC – browser-based remote access

August 22, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

KasmVNC provides browser-based remote access to Linux desktops and applications.

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qfontviewer – font viewer

August 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

qfontviewer is a font viewer with an integrated character table. It provides a straightforward graphical interface.

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Introduction to R and R Studio for Data Science

VAPOR – interactive 3D visualization environment

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

VAPOR (Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers) is an interactive 3D visualization environment for scientific data.

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S3 Tools

KIO S3 – integrates Amazon S3 and S3-compatible object storage

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

KIO S3 integrates Amazon S3 and S3-compatible object storage with KDE applications.

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Deep Learning

MindSpore – deep learning framework

August 20, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

MindSpore is a deep learning framework for training and inference across cloud, edge, and mobile environments.

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